20-02-2016, 12:26 AM
Hi Don,
I've been wracking my last little gray cell with your various investigations, but it just has not gotten any taller. To be honest, I haven't totally kept up, so I'll just ask.
Do you have the mermaid illustration from Harley 6149 f 30
Did you see the stack of nebuly lines by Konrad Kyeser in the illustration of the Four Winds? I see in his biography that he was court physician in Padua, and died after 1405. They really are nebuly. And I think it is important, in the example of the VMs central rosette that you pointed out, that the VMs author really can do a fairly good replication or a nebuly line. S/He is clearly down with that particular format.
I did look at some examples of heraldic sea-lions (top half lion and nether half fish) and heraldic sea-horses (likewise). About all I can say is that none of them are about to be sneaking out of their fish costumes any time soon, no way.
So is the Hunterian image an accurate reflection of the festivities and the costumes found at one of your Tallahassee pool parties? Or might it reflect a belief in something else, perhaps the existence of a being that is able to move between two forms: mermaid and human?
Good hunting!
I've been wracking my last little gray cell with your various investigations, but it just has not gotten any taller. To be honest, I haven't totally kept up, so I'll just ask.
Do you have the mermaid illustration from Harley 6149 f 30
Did you see the stack of nebuly lines by Konrad Kyeser in the illustration of the Four Winds? I see in his biography that he was court physician in Padua, and died after 1405. They really are nebuly. And I think it is important, in the example of the VMs central rosette that you pointed out, that the VMs author really can do a fairly good replication or a nebuly line. S/He is clearly down with that particular format.
I did look at some examples of heraldic sea-lions (top half lion and nether half fish) and heraldic sea-horses (likewise). About all I can say is that none of them are about to be sneaking out of their fish costumes any time soon, no way.
So is the Hunterian image an accurate reflection of the festivities and the costumes found at one of your Tallahassee pool parties? Or might it reflect a belief in something else, perhaps the existence of a being that is able to move between two forms: mermaid and human?
Good hunting!